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Not Spotify, Not Europe: Apple Approves ...

Posted by Kerascene Music in Digital Music News on 09 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Funny how Rhapsody plays second fiddle to Spotify, at least within the industry. But stateside, consumers have little familiarity with Spotify, and Rhapsody has been offering a similar concept for years - albeit in a mostly paid version. That has attracted a niche audience, though a recently-approved...

Posted by Kerascene Music in Digital Music News on 09 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Norah Jones performed (playing guitar instead of piano) and Steve Jobs made his first major pubic appearance today at Apple's major music announcement. The assembled crowd of journalists greeted Jobs with thunderous applause usually reserved for conquering heroes.Top music news from the press conference...

Spotify APP Approved by Apple!...

Posted by Qmuso in Digital Music News on 08 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Just in, the Spotify APP that the whole world and their mother, seemingly, has been waiting for has apparently been approved by Apple and may be in the APP store within a fortnight. It’s a good move by Apple who could have easily been worried about Spotify’s effect on their own iTunes software....

Posted by Tim Cant in Music Making on 08 24th, 2009 | No Comments

This superb video was made using a variety of iPhone software to create tracks which were then combined in video editing software Final Cut – more details from the creator’s blog here. Our best guess is that it took roughly a bazillion hours to make – check it out!

Posted by Tim Cant in Music Making on 08 21st, 2009 | No Comments

It’s been described as the music industry’s equivalent of a Turner Prize, and it’s back! The PRS Foundation for Music is once again providing £50,000 to encourage the creation of an imaginative and original piece of new British music. Here's the lowdown

Is Apple’s iPod Dying – And ...

Posted by Kerascene Music in Tech News on 08 6th, 2009 | No Comments

The beloved and oft-copied iPod MP3 music player has been a huge part of Apple's bread and butter success since the first edition launched in 2001, but iPod sales revenues are apparently dropping and being eclipsed by revenues for Macs and iPhones.So does that mean that the iPod is dead? Could it be?...

Entire album made on iPhone...

Posted by Ronan Macdonald in Music Making on 08 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

We've had single tracks and even a music video made using nothing but the iPhone, but New York outfit Nuclear O'Reilly claim to be the first band to make a whole album using Apple's touchscreen marvel. The work is titled Phoning It In, and the duo's App of choice? Intua's amazing Beatmaker. See/hear...

Posted by Tim Cant in Music Making on 05 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Samplepack website SoundsOnDemand (or “SOD” as they curiously prefer to be known) has recently reached a whopping 500 titles in their library, and are celebrating by making available a free “Jubilee” samplepack containing WAV and Kontakt format sounds....Read More

Propellerhead Record announced!...

Posted by Ronan Macdonald in Music Making on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments

We knew something big was coming from Sweden, and Propellerhead certainly haven't disappointed us with the announcement of Record, a brand new DAW aimed at musicians and bands looking for an intuitive way to turn their ideas into reality, rather than hardcore...Read More

Posted by Lee du-Caine in Music Making on 04 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Novation launched their SL Mk II series of updated controllers at the recent Frankfurt Musikmesse show, describing them as the "biggest music-making product" of the entire event. Luckily, we haven't had long to wait to get our hands on one of the new...Read More

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